They owed little directly to the queen, who was never a major patron of the arts.

She never let anyone challenge her authority as queen, even though many people, who felt she was weak and should be married, tried to do so.

The estimated number of losing tricks ( losers ) in one's hand is determined by examining each suit and assuming that an ace will never be a loser, nor will a king in a 2 + card suit, nor a queen in a 3 + card suit ; accordingly

Edward's ministers believed that the people would never accept Mrs Simpson as queen and advised against the marriage.

The marriage was never consummated, and she was not crowned queen consort.

As a result, the opposing kings may never occupy adjacent squares ( see opposition ), but the king can give discovered check by unmasking a bishop, rook, or queen.

In Russian it keeps its Persian name of ferz to this day ; koroleva or queen is colloquial and is never used by professional chess players.

Magnus, whose birth year has never been confirmed in modern times, was probably the second son of Birger Jarl ( Birger Magnuson, 1200 – 66 ) and Princess Ingeborg, herself the sister of the childless king Eric Ericson of Sweden, thus a daughter of king Eric the Survivor and his queen, Richeza of Denmark.

Conversely, we understand Cleopatra at her death as the transcendent queen of “ immortal longings ” because the container of her mortality can no longer restrain her: unlike Antony, she never melts, but sublimates from her very earthly flesh to ethereal fire and air .”

" James continued " The depraved space queen Servalan ... could never quite bring herself to volatilize the dimly heroic Blake even when she had him square in the sights of her plasmatic spasm guns.

The traditional description of her as " the only English queen never to set foot in the country " would still be literally true, as she did not visit England during the time she was Richard's consort.

Although the king could have easily banished his mistress, supporting his queen, he never did so.

After some discussion, Leontes demands to be led toward the bodies of his wife and son: " Prithee, bring me / To the dead bodies of my queen and son: / One grave shall be for both: upon them shall / The causes of their death appear, unto / Our shame perpetual " ( 3. 2 ) Paulina seems convinced of Hermione's death, and Leontes ' order to visit both bodies and see them interred is never called into question by later events in the play.

His queen, Sophie of Prussia, was never allowed back in Greece.

Charles, as King, later testified in writing to his Council that he had never been married to anyone except his queen ( Catherine of Braganza ).

Because Elizabeth I of England was never queen of Scotland, some nationalists maintained when Elizabeth II came to the British throne in 1952 that in Scotland she should be styled " Elizabeth I ".

She was one of only three Princesses of Wales who never became queen consort.

Buckingham was thought to be behind the idea of obtaining the divorce of the childless queen, Catherine of Braganza ( though this never happened ).

She did in fact learn to speak better Dutch than her often French-speaking spouse, but she upheld a strict etiquette and never became very popular as queen.

Mary de Bohun ( c. 1368 – 4 June 1394 ) was the first wife of King Henry IV of England and the mother of King Henry V. Mary was never queen, as she died before her husband came to the throne.

An attempted monarchical revolution, planned by the queen and a few devoted young nobles in 1756, was easily and remorselessly crushed ; and, though the unhappy king did not, as he anticipated, share the fate of Charles Stuart, he was humiliated as never monarch was humiliated before.

Another hand known as a " Doyle Brunson ," especially in Texas, is the ace and queen of any suit because, as he says on page 519 of Super / System, he " never plays this hand.

Mary Adelaide never saw her daughter crowned queen, as she died on 27 October 1897 at White Lodge, Richmond Park, Surrey, and was buried in the royal vault at St. George's Chapel, Windsor.

The issue arose again with the accession of the current monarch, Elizabeth II, as Scotland has never before had a regnant Queen Elizabeth, the previous queen of that name having been queen of England only.

Nevertheless, its princesses achieved prominent marriages: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, sister of Duke Adolphus Frederick IV, married King George III in 1761, thus becoming queen consort of Great Britain.

From those initial queens and a further imported mature male stud boy and one other unrelated queen in August 2007 a colony of over 100 cats was achieved within two years in the UK.

First teaching at Athens, Cassius later moved to Asia Minor, where he achieved the position of advisor to the queen of Palmyra, Zenobia.

Since any amount of material can be sacrificed as long as checkmate will be achieved, the queen is not above being sacrificed as part of a combination.

" In the story, a devil is hiding within a pagan idol, and bound by Bartholomew's spiritual powers to acknowledge himself and confess, the devil refers to Jesus as the one which " made war on Hel our queen " ( Old Norse heriaði a Hel drottning vara ).

Well before the queen's powers expanded, it was already being romantically described as essential to the king's survival, so that when the queen was lost, there was nothing more of value on the board.

Heterodox chess problems involve conditions that are impossible with normal play, such as multiple kings or chess variants, while fairy chess problems employ pieces not used in orthodox chess, such as the amazon ( a piece combining the powers of the queen and the knight ).

He ascended to the throne following the death of his brother-in-law, absolutist Charles XII in the Great Northern War, as his sister and heir Ulrika Eleonora preferred to abdicate from her position as queen regnant after relinquishing most powers to the Riksdag of Sweden.

A queen regnant is a queen in her own right with all the powers of a monarch, usually becoming queen by inheriting the throne on the death of the previous monarch ; they have been far fewer in number.

She is queen of all heavenly powers.

An extreme case is Kil, who is consecutively portrayed as a noble sexless warrior, a maternal caretaker of an embryo, a lustful lover, a deposed queen with magical powers, an evil witch who engages in human sacrifice, a ruthless tyrant who burns down a city, a fraudulent heroic adventurer, etc.

A queen regnant possesses and exercises sovereign powers.

* Jessica Drew never regained her powers, she is not queen of the Skrulls and Secret Invasion never happened.

The queen is believed to have powers to make rain.

Because he has drunk so often from the vampire queen Akasha from whom the vampiric life fount originated, he is immensely powerful and possesses a number of advanced powers: with his mind, he can ignite objects ( pyrokinesis ) ( the ' Fire Gift '), the ability to fly ( the ' Cloud Gift '), very strong telekinesis, and can move with such speed that only other powerful blood drinkers are able to track his movements.

A meeting of leading notables packed with Rana supporters found the queen guilty of complicity in the plot, stripped her of her powers, and sent her into exile in Varanasi along with King Rajendra.

A meeting of leading notables packed with Rana supporters found the queen guilty of complicity in the plot, stripped her of her powers, and sent her into exile in Banaras along with King Rajendra.

There, they confront Lomi Plo, who uses her powers to manipulate the doubts of others so that they can't see her ; hence, she is the titular unseen queen of the novel.